Expert classroom time management advice.This tip, called Go With The Flow, allows teachers to adjust their plans and keep stress to a minimum. Get the most out of your classroom time with this management tip.

Despite voluminous online and face-to-face training opportunities, colleges and universities still struggle to get significant numbers of full- and part-time instructors to participate. “Instructors have plenty of stories about how much research they are doing, how many classes they are teaching,” Zotti said.“The biggest challenge is time, especially when dealing with adjunct faculty,” said Kerr, of Fanshawe College. “If they are teaching online, they are not around” on campus.

The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) is the outcome of twenty years of work in developing and, most importantly, simplifying a straightforward, rigorous process that helps all students learn how to produce their own questions, improve their questions, and strategize on how to use their questions. In the process, they develop divergent, convergent and metacognitive thinking abilities.

Adjunct Faculty instructors at College of DuPage are responsible for course planning and instruction in classroom, lab, or clinical settings, courses may be conducted in various delivery modes, such as, face-to-face, on-line, hybrid and/or blended formats. In addition, adjunct faculty are responsible for student evaluation, and timely and accurate submission of required paperwork related to instruction.

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College of DuPage seeks adjunct faculty members to teach Plant Propagation courses in Horticulture for Spring 2018.

We can withhold the guidance and support that makes learning experiences positive and constructive. The more interesting question is how we know whether we are doing too much or not enough. It’s a question that applies to individual courses, the programs to which they belong, and within our institutions.

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Successful build self directed learning skills. Knowing how long to wait before entering a discussion is as important as knowing how quickly you should answer an e-mail. Creating independent learners should be an objective for every course we teach.

Successful build self directed learning skills. Knowing how long to wait before entering a discussion is as important as knowing how quickly you should answer an e-mail. Creating independent learners should be an objective for every course we teach.

Chapter 3 of my open textbook on ‘Teaching in a Digital Age‘ is about theory and practice in teaching for a digital age, which I am still in the process of writing. I have to admit that I approached writing about learning theories with some dread. In particular I was concerned (in order of dread) that:

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This is why I often say, "When Tony Bates speaks, I listen." ~ lessons from a master!

The Educational Technologist is responsible for working with Subject Matter Experts, faculty and other stakeholders to update, refresh and redesign the multimedia components of online learning experiences for a variety of courses while also supporting online instructors as they teach a course.

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This is a full time face to face job at the University of New England, Portland ME.

a colleague alerted me to an interesting article that turned the usual cell phone policy approach on its head. What if, instead of punishing students for bad behavior, we rewarded them for good conduct?

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Policies banning the use of cell phones don't work very well. Consider this approach?

If you have been considering an online instructional design certificate program, then you've come to the right place. In this post, I will go over the basics of Instructional Design certificate programs; share 7 tips for choosing the right Instructional Design program, and even highlight 18 Online Instructional Design Certificate Programs that you may want to consider.

Jim Lerman: "One tiny little feature that packs an amazing punch is Voice Typing in Google Docs. This is a speech-to-text feature that is built-in to the most popular word processor in the world, and it is available to you and your students if you have a microphone in your devices."~ Thanks for the tip Jim! ~ Dennis

With the new school year fast approaching, I can already feel the jarring shift from attentive husband and doting dad to harried English teacher. I know I’ll soon be lost in trying to grade a set of essays, plan a new lesson on subject/verb agreement, prep for club meetings, and cheer on my students in their extracurricular endeavors. Every year I lose track of aspects of family life that have been so wonderful all summer. This year I am trying to make some changes to my teacher work-life balance.

All online teachers seek a work life balance. Few attain it, especially early in their online careers. It is easy to be 'on' 24x7. What promises do you make to yourself and your family as the new semester begins?

A great deal of the perception of CBE is that there are “hundreds of schools” developing programs, often driven by a 2015 Public Agenda survey. What is happening in reality is that hundreds of schools are very cautiously dipping their toes in the CBE waters with no real commitment to make the model work, and they are only playing with courses and individual programs.

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Competency Based Education is a modern response to market demands for education tuned to the marketplace. The recent WGU audit may upset the CBE movement. At a time when so many are calling for change in Higher Education, the impact of this audit may echo for years.

“I’m fascinated by trying to look forward rather than looking at what schools look like now,” said Alan November during a presentation at the conference. November has long been invested in education, first as a teacher and now has a consultant and speaker. He suggests that to fundamentally change, education leaders need to define a new role for learners and then hire teachers who can help nurture those qualities. With that in mind, November proposes seven questions that he thinks should become standard in the interviewing and hiring process.

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I've been working with education technology since the 1980's. I can attest to the reality that schools (and teachers) are slow to change. This article shows how principals can stack the deck when they hire 'future ready teachers'.

Life. It has a habit of getting in the way of the stuff we’re actually meant to be doing. Many students at The Left Bank juggle studies around full time work and family, not to mention sleep, socialising and all…

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Students, get smart about how to learn online. Teachers, teach your students these Hacks (tips)

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